Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1896.] THE CoRRELATION OF SPIRITUAL FoRCES. 29
only that which is immortal in man can enable him to know
immortality. Immortality is freedom. The house in which
freedom dwells is the omnipotence of divine law, for free will is
itself the law to which all nature bows in obedience.
Freedom is redemption. The freedom of man does not
consist in liberty of the action of the senseless elements that
constitute his animal nature, any more than the freedom of a
nation consists in the libet·ty of its criminals and fools. Man
maintains his freedom by subdning his subordinatms of the personal man all the impersonal elements
that belong to hiR own divine natut•e. Only that which
is not boutul hy pet·sotmlitv c:ut eutet· into true liberty and imtnOt·tality.
\\'iRclnm i11 the door to ft·eetlona, and self-knowledge
the throne upon whieh fret-dom dwel!R.
The light of tl'nth shines from above upon the pathway of
life, but wi1ulnm iR born in the soul of man when he t•eeognizes
the light of tt·uth. The knowlt'dge of a man is within, and
of all the wisclom in the wot'lcl only that pcwtion will benefit
one whidt hec~omes manifeRt in himRelf. Love is the Reat of
faith, ancl the Relit of man's wiRclom iR the wm·tl whieh the tl'llth
Rpoaks sil•·ntly iu his heat·t. Expea·ietwc i~ the mothet· of lmnwlt~clgc,
atul all kunwleclge not lmsecl upon expet·itmce is not real.
For this •·cason man waR born tn c>:at. nf the fl'llit of the tree of
good and evil, that he may taste it himself and not met·~y
lea•·u some theory in regard to its flavor. llhtRm·y knowledg-e
is continually mistaken for real knowledge; hut the touchstone
of tlw latter is justic'e, a.ncl justice is measured by its works.
Wistlom is not a prodm•t of nature; it ruleR all natut·e. whererer
its laws ;u·•· ohe.v~cl. "risdom rules ing superior to
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